Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Anabantiformes

Family: Anabantidae

Genus: Ctenopoma

Species: Ctenopoma acutirostre Pellegrin, 1899

Climate Zone

Location

• Africa: middle Congo River basin (Ref. 1880, 4910, 41580, 41591, 45441) in Central African Republic, Republic of Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Also reported from the lower Congo River just downstream of the Kinsuka rapids (Ref. 45434).

Biology

Obligate air-breathing (Ref. 126274); An air-breathing species (Ref. 118402).

Habitat

benthopelagic

Conservation Status

Least Concern

Threat to Humans

Harmless